Shooting geese on the ground with bow, problems ?

Perfectly legal to do. Ethical? Whoever says you are not ethical, let them try it and see how hard it is. No different than bowhunting turkey IMO. I wouldn't worry much about blade sharpness either to limit passthroughs so the birds don't fly off.

Shoot 'em any which way you can. Put a washer (star or flat) behind your broadhead to prevent pass throughs.

At the cost of those guillotine and bullhead broadheads, I would NOT advise using those. Although cool for turkeys, you'd be wasting an awful lot of money trying to nail a bunch of birds with them. Head and neck shots with a small game point would work though. Urban geese most likely will give you multiple shots and they should let you get within bow range. They are used to people walking around them. Some might even try to attack you. Ever consider using a bowfishing setup with some #200 fast flight line? lol that might be "unethical" but would be neat to battle that thing out of the sky.

See this question asked 10 times a year. Never do see very many that actually follow through with the actual bow hunt on waterfowl.

My view is never popular but I'd telll them to choke on the green cheetos until they can allow gun hunting. If they can't let you gun hunt, tell them to contact an animal damage control agent and pay.

If you want to bow shoot birds that you can gun hunt, I say good luck. Otherwise there are reasons you can't gun hunt and if it is because there are too many houses then in reality you probably shouldn't be hunting the pond at all.

Good luck, if you do get it done post some pics for us.

They do make sub-sonic ammo for situations such as this. You can also get depredation permits for geese, and maybe set up a day a week to shoot them, with approval of all the neighbors that don't like goose crap on their shoes. If you archery hunt them, learn where to hit or shoot only for the head.

This is the very best advice, it has worked for me many many times over. They will go to fields to feed. Find the best place to hunt them away from the roost and you can hunt all season long.

Dep tags for geese are typically given out during the summer molt prior to the Sept season. The birds really are not even flying at that point. Might as well just get paid to kill the birds, get your ADC license and oil the eggs. Much more effective. I was asked to go kill some geese for a guy one time that had got dep tags. I told him I would be more than happy to go during the normal waterfowl seasons but not interested in shooting birds that can't even fly just because they didn't want them around.

They went out and killed like 35 in a weekend...what a hunt!

Check out indianasportsman. dec just killed some with a bow. Perfectly legal. I would also say if they are sick of the crap then they should let you use guns.

Well it's not even waterfowl season and the first pictures of a goose with an arrow sticking out of it have surfaced.
I know that for every bird that is photographed with an arrow in them there are hundreds if not thousands of other birds with shot in them however you can't see it and it won't appear in a national photo giving all hunters a bad image.
abcnews.go.com/Technology/slideshow/photos-amazing-animals-8537483

quick google search of goose with arrow turns up several pics with arrows sticking out every angle...still a bad idea in my opinion but again not usually a popular one!